When I caught wind that we were moving from grow-almost-anything England to rocks-are-the-indigenous-life-form New Mexico, I knew that a stereotypical garden wouldn’t work. Well maybe it would, but I don’t feel like going through the hoops of putting one in on a house that we’ll be renting for only a few years. I need to [...]Read Full Article →

Building (and flying) my quadcopter has been taking up the past few weekends… until I accidentally American-Gladiatored the thing through a gauntlet of tree branches. Oops. They say that there are those that will crash one, and those that have crashed one; I now stand firmly in the latter group. So, as I await the spare parts to [...]Read Full Article →

We’ve had our current laptop now for almost 2 years. Last week, it started hiccupping for the first time and just randomly freezes up now. It’ll quit thinking (accessing the hard drive), the mouse will freeze on the screen and no inputs can be made… period. Obviously, when it’s not frozen it works fine (that [...]Read Full Article →

After being desktop-less, all the components I’ve ordered for the new computer build have finally arrived. Throughout the week, I’ve disassembled the old hardware in the Alienware to mainly give me confidence on installing the processor to the motherboard and hooking up the right plugs to the right places. I’ve bought a computer by components [...]Read Full Article →

Well, the computer broke down again and wouldn’t boot-up this morning. Ha! Who cares because I outsmarted it by mirroring the hard drives! Knowing I had the upper-hand finally in this situation, I went into the RAID setup to rebuild the hard drive set… once that was done, and because I have two hard-drives of [...]Read Full Article →

Those that I’ve known over the past few years know about the “super” computer I bought about 2 years ago. I put super in quotes because that computer, though speedy when it’s full-up, has given me many breakdowns. In fact, I got on a soapbox about it earlier this year here after it took me a week [...]Read Full Article →

Well, after being convinced with what Limey can do with photos, as well as rave reviews from both Pam’s mom and Susannah, I decided to throw in the towel and pick up a copy of Adobe Photoshop Elements. The interface seems a lot less user-friendly than Microsoft’s Digital Image, which I’ve had and worked with [...]Read Full Article →

Ugggh. So now that I have a new shit-hot laptop that came with a Windows Vista disk, it dawned on me that I might as well upgrade my desktop from Windows XP to Windows Vista. It’s almost like déjà vu.
About a year ago, I was having problems with the desktop and the RAID0 configuration. After [...]Read Full Article →

This weekend I came home to the surprise of a new laptop still in the FedEx box. Our replacement for the old laptop (dubbed Johnny 5, because it kept kicking after a spill… then it died) wasn’t supposed to show up until 27 February. I guess it showed up the Monday I left to go [...]Read Full Article →

I’m sure anyone reading this has seen the old ’80’s movie Short Circuit. Well, I had the scare of my life last night. I was sitting down and my sister, Cheyenne, was trying to upload new phone ringers with my computer. She poured herself a new glass of wine and dribbled a portion on the [...]Read Full Article →